Math Words 1
The two-dimensional space taken up by an object or shape, given in square units
What is area?
A polynomial equation with two terms usually joined by a plus or minus sign.
What is a binomial?
A segment joining two points on a circle.
What is a chord?
The longest side of a right-angled triangle, always opposite to the right angle itself.
What is the hypotenuse
The middle value in a series of numbers ordered from least to greatest.
What is the median?
All whole numbers, positive or negative, including zero.
What are integers?
A straight line with only one endpoint that extends infinitely.
What is a ray?
The region between two concentric circles which have different radii.
What is an annulus?
The solution to a division problem.
What is a quotient?
A letter or number representing a numerical quantity attached to a term.
What is a coefficient?
An open curve whose points are equidistant from a fixed point called the focus and a fixed straight line called the directrix.
What is a parabola?
The number under the radical symbol.
What is the radicand?
A parallelogram with four sides of equal length and no right angles.
What is a rhombus?
The branch of mathematics dealing with limits, derivatives, definite integrals, indefinite integrals, and power series.
What is Calculus?
A rectangular (or square) array of numbers.
What is a matrix?
A line or curve that the graph of a relation approaches more and more closely the further the graph is followed.
What is an asymptote?
An angle formed by intersecting planes.
What is a dihedral angle?
A statement accepted as true without proof.
What is a postulate?
A conic section that can be thought of as an inside-out ellipse.
What is a hyperbola?
Switching the hypothesis and conclusion of a conditional statement and negating both.
What is the contrapositive?
The horizontal line drawn as part of a fraction or radical.
What is the vinculum?
The first coordinate in an ordered pair.
What is the abscissa?
A surface of revolution obtained by revolving (in three dimensional space) a circle about a line which does not intersect the circle.
What is a torus?
The amount of energy required to move an object over a given path subject to a given force.
What is work?
The line segment from the center of a regular polygon to the midpoint of a side.
What is an apothem?